I’m not going to condemn or argue about what bugs exist or what is genuinely unfair and what not.
But the desert takes the weak.
I still think they should have put lasgun and shield interactions in.
I find it kinda funny that the devs of Anarchy Online didn’t think about kiting as a strategy in 2025.
Even if they made collisions/blocking not possible, you could still lure hostile mobs on another player as has been tradition in many games that have no PvP at all since the days of MUDs and MUSHes.
This trick, as reported by Eurogamer, involves landing your own ornithopter on another player’s and then placing a thumper in the ground to summon Shai-Hulud, the ever-hungry sandworms that roam all over.
This works because, while vehicles can no longer damage people by ramming into them, they can still block other vehicles. This was apparently a common tactic out in the Deep Desert, where it was annoying but relatively fair game considering that’s the PvP zone, but now it’s popular in Hagga Basin, too.
Is this game any fun?
Yeah, but if you want a true PvE experience, look elsewhere. As it’s impossible to reach end-game without risk of being killed by another player.
Even on private servers, the later resources are only in pvp areas that are shared with other private servers.
It’s ok.
Your enjoyment is going to fall intob either you making your own fun and/or playing with people. Playing solo, it’s a big ghost town.
Combat is unvearied. The gameplay loop gets very repetitive very quickly.
Early game at least, the sandworm and dust storms provide an interesting looking threat for a while.
It’s not a bad game, but it’s a pvp centric game with minimal pve to justify the story of Dune.
To me it seems like it’s very much going to be a flash in a pan kind of game. It is going to live and die by rapid updates to add content. What is there if you know what you’re doing, you could experience the whole game in about a weekend.
Yes
But I don’t know if it’s fun or I’m addicted
I’ve played it for about 6 hours and so far it’s kind of meh. I’ll admit I’ve not made it to the full in deep desert with PVP and so forth so my opinion still might change. But the early game is kind of slow for my tastes and the script writing / story is just senseless video game tripe.
Also a side note is that so far the voice acting for the story stuff is pretty bad overall. My favorite so far was when you’re exploring a shipwreck and find a voice log from the crash and the speaker identifies herself as Ensign whoever. But she mispronounces ensign as “en-sine” which made me do this:
Which is correct pronunciation…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ensign
A street sign is not pronounced sin.
I think it’s best at this point to call the American version American rather than English, cause it’s kind of doing it’s own thing, but if you call it English. The standard should be based off the English dictionary.
Jessie what the fuck are you on about?
The audio clip in that source is just flat out wrong (and I’m pretty sure it’s either AI generated or an American trying to do a British accent. Source: Am British). If you look at the phonetic symbols you’ll see that they’re identical for both pronunciations, and every other source agrees that the pronunciations are the same for UK and US.
Here’s one with audio that isn’t fucked - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-pronunciations/ensign
Well TIL, thanks for educating me.
Though it occurs to me that she was speaking with an American accent though so I’m not sure of saying she should pronounce it the British way.
They’re wrong. See my comment above.
It’s very not slow if you don’t want it to be as soon as I got a bike I ignored all quests headed straight for high level areas I shouldn’t be. Looted chests until I got cutters and stuff to farm higher end ores and had a thopter in like 2 days tops. I’ve been doing deep desert stuff for ages and still have barely done any quests at all. It’s very forgiving about skipping ahead if you want to. And honestly that made me love the game a lot.
I played for about 50 hours and had a blast. Putting it down for a bit so I dont burn thru the rest of the content lol.
Shouldn’t be too difficult to fix for the devs. At least until the griefers invent a new strategy.
The game is young though it’s not like it’s surprising or unusual that there is bug and exploits still active.
